Moving to Vancouver Island was the final other catalyst. Going from being such a physical person to a sedentary writer (also hard on the back) was a big change but it was time, I think, to give my voice its due. And these imagined worlds were equally as vivid as the so called real one. I could keep a daydream going all day, go to sleep and wake up and begin where I left off. I had always been an excellent daydreamer. Though not a word person by instinct, I did have a connection to the world of storytelling. No longer able to dance and choreograph but still pregnant with creative energy, words became my new, untrained limbs. A former professional ballet dancer and choreographer, Dede Crane has studied Buddhist psychology and psychokinetics at Naropa Institute in Colorado and the Body-Mind Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is currently working on a second teen novel, Poster Boy. Her first published story, “Seers,” appeared in Grain magazine and was short listed for the CBC Literary Award she has since been published in numerous literary journals.ĭede has also co-edited, with author Lisa Moore, a collection of non-fiction stories about the experience of giving birth. She has also published the teen novel, The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines. She cu Dede Crane is the author of the literary novel Sympathy, which was a finalist for the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Dede has also co-edited, with author Lisa Moore, a collection of non-fiction stories about the experience of giving birth. Her first published story, “Seers,” appeared in Grain magazine and was short listed for the CBC Literary Award she has since been published in numerous literary journals. Dede Crane is the author of the literary novel Sympathy, which was a finalist for the Victoria Butler Book Prize.

Poster Boy by Dede Crane